Samsung Galaxy A50 Review

Samsung now following the path of a company like Xiaomi, Realme and started to give more feature products in Low Budget. Samsung has Launched its all-new Galaxy A50 in the Indian Market to attract Samsung Fans. To recapture this audience, the Samsung M series phones have competitive prices compared to old Samsung versions, as well as notched displays, dual or triple camera setups, and big batteries. Samsung already has the Galaxy M10 (Review) and Galaxy M20 (Review). If you want more information on Samsung Galaxy A50 then read the article till the end.

Samsung Galaxy A50 Specifications

While we already know how aggressive the cheap smartphone market can get, is your Samsung Galaxy A50 capable enough to take down the contest? We put it to the test to learn.

Samsung Galaxy A50 Design
It has a teardrop notch at the top which Samsung describes the Infinity-U display. The phone sports a big 6.4-inch Super AMOLED display with narrow bezels at the top and the sides along with a thicker bottom chin. Samsung has moved the earpiece towards the frame of this telephone, and it’s as broad as the top notch.

Samsung has opted to get a plastic unibody for its Galaxy A50 and provides it in two colors, Gradation Blue and Gradation Black. We had the Gradation Blue version for review that had a beautiful blue gradient physically. Samsung has rounded the surfaces of the telephone which makes it comfortable to hold in hand. The corners can also be curved so that they don’t dig into your palms.

The power and volume buttons are set on the right of this Samsung Galaxy A50 and offer good clicky feedback. We discovered the power button to be well positioned, but attaining the volume buttons required a quick shuffle at hand. To the left of the gadget is the SIM tray which includes two Nano-SIM slots along with a dedicated microSD card slot.

At the top, the Samsung Galaxy A50 only has a microphone hole, while the 3.5mm headphone jack, USB Type-C port, and loudspeaker are put at the bottom. The phone has an oval-shaped fingerprint scanner in the back which we felt is somewhat too high, which makes it inconvenient to achieve. There’s a triple camera set up at the end, which sits flush with the body. The selfie flash is placed right below the camera module.

You get a 15W charger in the box that should be in a position to top up the phone relatively fast.

Samsung Galaxy A50 software

The panel is crisp, has excellent viewing angles, and is also legible when outside. It’s a little notch at the center of the best, which houses the selfie camera. While it is modest in size, it may disturb some people. You have the choice to conceal it by enabling the Hide Camera alternative in the screen settings. It places a black bar on both sides of the notch but does not round the corners, which seems strange.

We had the display in Adaptive Screen mode all of the time. This mode also lets you tweak the white balance and color levels.

You do have the option to enlarge storage by up to 512GB utilizing the committed microSD card slot.

Connectivity options for the Galaxy A50 comprise Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and GPS. The Galaxy A50 includes two Nano-SIM slots and supports 4G in addition to VoLTE on both SIMs.

The Galaxy A50 comes with Samsung Experience 9.5 working along with Android 8.1 Oreo which is a slightly dated version of Android. Our review unit had the February security patch, that will be good, though we would’ve liked if Samsung sent this phone using OneUI and Android Pie like it does on the Galaxy A30$16,990 which is priced slightly higher compared to the Galaxy A50.

We found the My Galaxy program to be spammy as it kept sending push notifications including news and ads. This got quite annoying as the telephone would display four to six notifications a day on topics which range from news and sports to movie promotions. We did not opt in for this and didn’t find an option to disable these. Ultimately, we needed to disable the My Galaxy program to stop these notifications, which can be far from ideal.

While preparing the phone for the very first time, it gave us a list of recommended programs to install, which we didn’t. During setup, it also requested us permission to display lock screen stories — news stories, sponsored content, and more on the lock display. It’s easy to miss this during setup and enable them by default, however, at least you can disable those later if needed. We didn’t allow Lock Screen Stories since we found these annoying when we reviewed the Samsung Galaxy M20.

Samsung has baked in several handy gestures. You can swipe back on the fingerprint scanner to pull the notification shade down, and swipe up to close it. It is possible to double-tap to wake the display. Samsung’s Chat Over Video attribute lets you respond to notifications from several messaging programs such as WhatsApp in a pop-up window while viewing a movie. Gesture navigation can be available, but it merely replaces the navigation buttons together with swipe points.

Samsung Galaxy A50 Performance, Battery life & Cameras

The Samsung Galaxy A50 has the same chip as the Galaxy M20$12,999, and we had been anticipating similar performance out of it. With daily tasks, the phone showed no sign of slowing down or stuttering. We could multi-task efficiently with various apps in the background.

The fingerprint scanner is fast to unlock the smartphone, and there is also face recognition that employs the selfie camera to unlock the phone. Face recognition is not the quickest but does the work in most lighting conditions.

Dolby Atmos is available, but it could only be enabled when using headphones. We discovered the loudspeaker to be a little too soft when viewing movies and playing games.

To test gaming performance, we played PUBG Mobile which defaulted to the Moderate preset with graphics set to Balanced and frame speed set to Medium. We noticed the phone is lagging when you run Heavy app.

We ran several benchmarks to test the performance of this Galaxy A50. It scored 1,07,495 in AnTuTu. In contrast, the Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 Pro scored 1,78,570 at AnTuTu and scored 2,389 and 6,593 at Geekbench 4’s single-core and multi-core tests. The benchmark scores in the Galaxy A50 were also slightly lower compared to those of the Asus ZenFone Max Guru M1$ 9,099 which is powered with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 SoC.

These scores are lower compared to Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 Pro as well which is similarly priced. In terms of performance benchmarks, the Galaxy A50 scores significantly less than some smartphones in this budget.

This phone constitutes its ordinary performance by offering a fantastic battery life. Using a 5000mAh battery onboard, it can go on for a long time without having to be plugged in. With our usage, that consisted of employing the Galaxy A50 for navigation for near 5 hours, watching a few videos, and using an active Whatsapp accounts, the phone easily lasted for more than a day and a half.

This is a good time and is higher than that of the Asus ZenFone Max Guru M1, but the Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 Guru shirts the Galaxy A50 at 19 hours and 23 minutes. It managed to charge the telephone to 23 percent in half an hour and 46 percent in one hour. It took over 2 hours to load the phone entirely.

Samsung’s camera program is user-friendly and straightforward. You’ll come across toggles laid out at the base while the various modes are at the top. In Pro mode, it lets you set exposure, ISO, and white balance before taking a photo, and Decals enables you to add AR stickers onto your topic. Live Focus sets the thickness sensor to work with and allows you to set the level of background blur. You can use beautification filters on Pictures with multiple inbuilt options.

When shooting the light, we observed chromatic aberration. The telephone could manage decent separation between backgrounds and subjects in macro shots. But, we discovered that the phone would aggressively boost the reds in shots, causing a few of them to seem artificial.

The ultra-wide-angle detector is beneficial to catch broader subjects or groups of topics, but since it lacks autofocus, it’s used for landscape shots. It did introduce barrel distortion in a few pictures we took, but Samsung provides a contour correction option from the gallery to sort out this. This detector, however, doesn’t capture details in addition to the most critical sensor.

We took some portraits utilizing the Live Focus mode and were happy with the output. It is possible to set the level of blur demanded, and also the edge detection is excellent. You also receive the options to change the degree of blur and add effects to those pictures in the gallery.

The low-cost camera performance of this Galaxy A50 was average. Photos had low noise, but there was sweet grain. This could be down to a competitive noise reduction algorithm. Objects in the distance weren’t very recognizable, but that is okay at this cost.

Selfies shot with all the 16-megapixel front camera had great detail. We also used the Live Focus style for a bokeh impact, and regardless of there being only a front camera, the Galaxy A50 managed good edge detection.

Final Verdict

The Samsung Galaxy A50 is your third smartphone from Samsung from the M show and is priced well at Rs. 14,990 for the 4GB RAM version and 17,990 for the greater 6GB RAM variant. It’s but one of a few smartphones at this cost to match a brilliant Super AMOLED panel, which we liked. We also discovered the significant battery very helpful as we could steer clear of the charger much more than usual. The cameras are great in daylight but could do with a few tweaks for more celebrated low-light photography.